"Beautiful Losers"
“Beautiful Losers” is an urban themed documentary of a group
of contemporary artists who talk about what they do, why they do it and who
they are as an artist. Ed Templeton is an artist and photographer, and paints
graphics on skateboards. Thomas Campbell is an artist, filmmaker, surfer and
all round general craftsman, Margaret Kilgallen is a printmaker, painter and
graffiti artist whose work has a great influence of folk art. Chris Johanson is
an artist who expressed in the film that makes art because he feels a need to.
As well as doing graffiti, Stephen powers is also a graphics artist, he
believes that for graffiti to be an art form it has to have meaning and a message.
Barry Mcgee is a painter and graffiti artist, when younger he created his ‘tag’
for his graffiti of which was ‘Twist’.
Mike Mills is a graphic designer, film maker and artist and Jo Jackson
is an artist who works primitively on canvas. Shepard Fairey is a contemporary
graphic designer and illustrator who was known for putting ‘stickers up in the
streets of ‘Andre the Giant’. Geoff McFetridge is an artist, graphic designer
and animator; he created all of the animations for the film. They are all ‘do
it yourself’ designers and artists that have a history or influence of either street
art, skateboarding, graffiti and underground music.
This film is very refreshing to watch and shows you a
variety of different approaches to art and design. All of the artists in this
made art not for money or business or profit but for some sort of love or need
to do it, which makes it a very inspirational and touching (at times) thing to
watch.
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